Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism - Couverture souple

Boon, Marcus; Cazdyn, Eric; Morton, Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022623326X ISBN 13 : 9780226233260

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2015

Synopsis

Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism’s global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on “nothing”—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory from Hegel and Marx through deconstruction, queer theory, and contemporary speculative philosophy. Through an elaboration of emptiness in both critical and Buddhist traditions; an examination of the problem of praxis in Buddhism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis; and an explication of a “Buddhaphobia” that is rooted in modern anxieties about nothingness, Nothing opens up new spaces in which the radical cores of Buddhism and critical theory are renewed and revealed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marcus Boon is professor of English at York University in Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022623326X
• ISBN 13: 9780226233260
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
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• Personne responsable: non disponible